Irish Mathematical Society

Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann

BULLETIN Number 43 Christmas 1999

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

• IMS Officers and Local Representatives ......... ii
• Notes on Applying for IMS Membership .......... iii
• Minutes of IMS meeting, 3 September 1999 .... 1
• 12th September Meeting, 1999 .................... 4
• Joint IMS/LMS Meeting, May 1998 ................. 6

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• Surveys
• A Survey of C*-algebraic Quantum Groups, Part I
  ........................ Johan Kustermans, Lars Tuset ... 8
• Ten Years of Local Multipliers .... Martin Mathieu ... 64

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• Obituary
• Professor William Hunter McCrea, FRS
  ................... Petros S. Florides, Patrick Dolan .... 70

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• Problems
• Three problems in one ........... Finbarr Holland ... 73
• The 40th International Mathematical Olympiad, 1999
  ................................ Kevin Hutchinson ... 79
• Solutions of the problems of
  the 40th International Mathematical Olympiad
  ................................ Kevin Hutchinson ... 87